Judith 6:17
Good News Translation
Achior told them what had been said at Holofernes' war council, what he himself had said to the Assyrian officers, and how Holofernes had boasted about what he would do to the Israelites.

New Revised Standard Version
He answered and told them what had taken place at the council of Holofernes, and all that he had said in the presence of the Assyrian leaders, and all that Holofernes had boasted he would do against the house of Israel.

Contemporary English Version
Achior said that he had been at the meeting between Holofernes and the commanders of the Assyrian army, and he repeated everything he had heard. Then he told the crowd what Holofernes himself had promised to do to the Israelites.

New American Bible
He replied by giving them an account of what was said in the council of Holofernes, and of all his own words among the Assyrian rulers, and of all the boasting threats of Holofernes against the house of Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Saying: The God of our fathers, whose power thou hast set forth, will make this return to thee, that thou rather shalt see their destruction.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Saying: The God of our fathers, whose power thou hast set forth, will make this return to thee, that thou rather shalt see their destruction.

Judith 6:15
Saying: O Lord God of heaven and earth, behold their pride, and look on our low condition, and have regard to the face of thy saints, and shew that thou forsakest not them that trust on thee, and that thou humblest them that presume of themselves, and glory in their own strength.

Judith 6:16
So when their weeping was ended, and the people's prayer, in which they continued all the day, was concluded, they comforted Achior,

Judith 6:18
And when the Lord our God shall give this liberty to his servants, let God be with thee also in the midst of us: that as it shall please thee, so thou with all thine mayst converse with us.

Judith 6:19
Then Ozias, after the assembly was broken up, received him into his house, and made him a great supper.

Context
Judith 6
16So when their weeping was ended, and the people's prayer, in which they continued all the day, was concluded, they comforted Achior, 17Saying: The God of our fathers, whose power thou hast set forth, will make this return to thee, that thou rather shalt see their destruction. 18And when the Lord our God shall give this liberty to his servants, let God be with thee also in the midst of us: that as it shall please thee, so thou with all thine mayst converse with us.…
Cross References
Judith 6:15
Saying: O Lord God of heaven and earth, behold their pride, and look on our low condition, and have regard to the face of thy saints, and shew that thou forsakest not them that trust on thee, and that thou humblest them that presume of themselves, and glory in their own strength.

Judith 6:16
So when their weeping was ended, and the people's prayer, in which they continued all the day, was concluded, they comforted Achior,

Judith 6:18
And when the Lord our God shall give this liberty to his servants, let God be with thee also in the midst of us: that as it shall please thee, so thou with all thine mayst converse with us.

Judith 6:19
Then Ozias, after the assembly was broken up, received him into his house, and made him a great supper.



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Judith 6:16
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